[Video] Q35: No change or strove for a method to make their study of biofuel combustion or looked for a method to study biofuel combustion or sought a method to study combustion of biofuels

Explanation for Question 35 From the Writing Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 8

So question 35 reads a group of engineering students from the university of California 2 at San Diego. For example, tried to find a method to make their biofuel 3 combustion study free for the drawbacks free of the drawbacks, 4 the researchers face on earth. Right? 5 So we're trying to find a way to word this correctly. 6 And the first thing that we can see is that we have to decide 7 between a verb. We could use, find strove, 8 looked or saw it, right? 9 And so if you're trying to find something find is very physical. 10 You're physically looking for an object. 11 For example, you find tangible things and a method is not 12 an object, right? You can't hold a method. 13 And so since a method is not tangible, find is not a good verb 14 to describe looking for it. And that's the same thing with see, 15 right? To look for a method to study biofuel, 16 combustion would indicate the method is something tangible that you can pick up and 17 we know that's not true. 18 So now we're looking between strove for something which doesn't imply that method is 19 physical or sought something. 20 And the difference between these is you strove for a method to make their 21 study of biofuel combustion, 22 or saw a method to study. And here the issue with B is to 23 make their study, right? Cause you don't make a scientific study. 24 You simply just study it. So having this extra phrase make their 25 study makes things a little bit too wordy, 26 a little bit too difficult to, to understand. 27 So for that reason, D has to be our correct answer.